Dubai, United Arab Emirates-The 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation held an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the fierce fighting between Israel and the radical Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip. This is the first Middle Eastern country that is still struggling to resolve the conflict. step.

Although the League of Arab States and organizations such as the Saudi Islamic Conference still insist that the Palestinians should have their own independent state, Israel has recently reached a recognition agreement with several of its members. In response to this, as well as some countries’ concerns about Hamas, people’s response to the attack was somewhat negative, rather than going all out in the past decades.

At the beginning of the meeting, Riad Malki, the Palestinian Foreign Minister of the Palestinian Authority, which administers the Israeli-occupied West Bank Autonomous Region, condemned what he called Israel’s “cowardly attack”.

He said: “We must tell Allah that we will resist until the last day.” “We are facing long-term occupation. This is the root of the problem. There are no consequences for the crimes committed by the Palestinians.”

However, Marchi’s Palestinian Authority cannot control Hamas and the Gaza Strip, and militants seized power here in 2007.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has taken a similarly hard line.

Kavsuglu said: “The Israelis alone are responsible for the recent escalation in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.” “Our warning to Israel last week was not heeded.”

In the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf states, the response to the fighting was mixed. In Qatar, where Al Jazeera’s satellite network is located, hundreds of people attended Saturday night to listen to a speech by Hamas’s supreme leader Ismail Haniye. Now, he is spreading his time between Turkey and Qatar, and both Iran and Iran have returned to Hamas.

“Resistance will not yield.” Haniye swore when the bodyguard stood behind him. He added that “resistance is the shortest way to Jerusalem” and that Palestinians will only accept a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

According to reports, Kuwait’s parliamentary spokesperson and Qatar’s foreign minister had a conversation with Haniye on Saturday. The same goes for General Esmail Ghaani, head of the Jihadist Corps of the Iranian Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Then there are Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, the two Gulf Arab states that reached a recognition agreement with Israel during the months of the Trump administration’s decline last year. These countries, as well as Saudi Arabia, have reiterated their support for the Palestinians to gain an independent state. However, the government-related media in these countries did not continuously report the current outbreak of violence like other networks in the region.

Although there are noises of different opinions. In the island nation of Bahrain, civil society groups signed a letter urging the country to expel Israel’s ambassador to violence. In the United Arab Emirates, where political parties and protests are illegal, Palestinians in the workforce in Abu Dhabi and Dubai quietly expressed their anger and fear of losing their residence permits. Some Emirati also expressed concern.

UAE writer and political analyst Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi wrote in a tweet: “The only democracy in the region.

Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu (Cavusoglu) criticized OIC members for reaching a recognition agreement with Israel.

He said: “Some people have lost their moral code and expressed their support for Israel.” “If there are half-hearted remarks in our family, how can we criticize those who (not) take our words seriously?”

Hussein Ibish, a senior scholar at the Washington-based Institute of Arab Gulf States, said that most Gulf Arab leaders worry that Hamas’ rockets are “a cynical cynical against Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza. , Danger, unnecessary provocation and harm”. He said that unlike other conflicts involving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site in Jerusalem, or Israeli settlers driving Arab families out of their homes, Gulf leaders have taken response measures.

Ibis wrote: “People will not have much sympathy for the crude and disproportionate acts of retaliation that are generally regarded as Israel’s in the Gulf region,” Ibis wrote, “but for the leaders of the Gulf countries and many citizens In other words, it will be much easier to treat this exchange as a tragic fire. At the expense of two civilians brought by a leadership they have neither control nor responsibility.”

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Associated Press reporter Aya Batrawy, Malak Harb from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Bassem Mroue from Beirut contributed to this report.